Following the March 20 assault of a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan, has violence in the Hip-Hop community reached a boiling point?
Smashing CDs and shredding T-shirts. That was the scene Monday in front of Universal Records as Hip-Hop fans gathered to say they’re sick of the violence that has claimed a child as it’s latest victim.
Rapper Marvin Bernard, known as Tony Yayo, allegedly attacked the 14-year-old son of a rival music company boss last week for wearing a T-shirt with the rival’s emblem.
“My son was approached by four men, two brandishing weapons and one slapping him in the face,” said Cynthia Reed, the victim’s mother. “I stand here today disappointed, disgusted and in disbelief that such a cowardly act was done to my child.”
Reed and others are calling for accountability from the artists and record companies — or a boycott.
“There is no civilized society that can stand by while its children are being beaten,” The Rev. Al Sharpton said. “We can not have a community where there are no standards, where there are no boundaries.”
Yayo, who now faces charges of assault and endangering the welfare of a child, is a member of rapper 50 Cent’s “G-Unit.” READ MORE
Al Sharpton and Cynthia Reed
Yesterday, Sharpton was joined by city Councilman Charles Barron, Czar executive Bryce Wilson, Cynthia Reed (mother of the victim), and Stephanie Hires – the ex-girlfriend of Busta Rhyme’s stained bodyguard Israel Ramirez – and she also brought their son Stiles Ramirez.
Interestingly enough, Allhiphop reported that the police is seeking to question Yayo in the murder of Ramirez because they believe the gunman who killed Ramirez was with Yayo and that the G-Unit rapper may have fled in the same vehicle. So yea, it ain’t looking too great for the G-Unit crew right now.
I hope this whole act wasn’t another desperate cry for attention. Ain’t 50 about to release another album? Bad move kid…he better stop laying back and do something.
Why are they protesting against 50 when its Tony Yayo who beat the kid?
i stopped liking 50 years ago. g uNOT
I guess they feel that it’s the responsibility of the whole label, but I do agree that Tony Yayo should be punished severely. I mean, it does sort of reflect poorly on the whole G-Unit squad. Tony Yayo couldn’t have done anything more stupid. I mean, hitting on kids??? Come on….
In response to #1, because that’s how to show your distest to someone or a company. For example, when Krammer made those tirades, wouldn’t it make more sense to boycott buying The Seinfields dvd? Finally, something Al has done something that I agree with it.
Wow!
No we need to save our kids from Beyonce, did you see that video of that little boy performing ‘Irreplacable’. It was a disgrace before the Lord!
G-G-G-G-G-Get yo ass in the car!
G-unit sucks moth balls! Don’t drop the soap Tony, maybe Toneisha will be your new name.
The sad thing is yayo and 50 have children! If it was their kids gettin hemmed up not only would somebody be goin down but they would let out a diss album w/ videos. I think this was a classy way of addressing the issue! 50 and yayo dont love the kids!
Note to stans: Beyonce thing was a joke, don’t kill me please.
Loll #6, your right my friends kid was trying to impersonate beyonce and shakaira’s belly dancing/stripper moves! Shes becoming totally inappropiate for small children who most r her biggest fans
Good G-unit is weak anyway they’re a bunch fake ass bitches im sick of these rappers actin like they thugs get outta here wit that! Hittin on a child if that was my baby I don’t care whoo it was i’d be messin somebody up!! Grow up Tiny Yayo!!
Damn..nuccas still listen to gay unit..
I meant Tony
I like how they arent just letting this die like so many other issues in the black community. And to answer #1 it is believed that 50 cent ordered his bitch(Tony Yayo) to go smack the boy and being the faithful little bitch he is he went on and did so.
WHATEVER!!
Cynthia Reed looks like Al Sharpton!!
Fuck 50 cent and his damn gorillas.Throw some fucking bananas at those apes lol.The sad thing about it is that some people actually think 50 is the greatest rapper alive.Are u kidding me?Our society is so dumn today.
This man 50 is really smart. He tricked people into thinking he can rap by getting shit nine times? Its sounds rediculous when you say it outloud. NNow his crew is beating up kds over rap beef, thats what its come too….
I know this might sound mean and un-sensitive to the “victim” but COME THE FUNK ON!! The boy was SLAPPED!!! not murdered, not sentenced to 7 yrs in jail for pushing a teacher….but SLAPPED! Does this incedent really require al sharpton and protests? How many kids are murdered by grown ass men in the streets everyday? Hell even when rappers shoot eachother they dont get as much attention as this.
Now I am definetly not a gunit cronie, and I think tony yayo or whatever his name is should be punished for assaulting the kid, but enough is enough. We have waaaay more important issues than a rich man’s son being slapped and they need to be addressed by our community. How long did it take for shaniqua cotton’s story to make headline news? I mean that girl was sent to 7 yrs of imprisonment for shoving a teacher while a white girl gets probation by the same judge for burning down a house! She already had a yr of her life taken from her because we were just getting the news, but this boy being slapped warrants immediate attention smh.
Now if they are using this boy to put a stop to violent music and violent images then by all means march up and down washington dc for the sensorship of gangsta rappers, but if this is only about him being slapped then people need to move on this needs to be settled in the courts.
@ 17- He did have the world fooled including me! The day I found out he was just another gimmick was equivalent to the day I found out Santa Cluase wasn’t real. Talk about crushed like some ice….box my heart used to be
not a good look. How lame can u be to hem up a 14yr old. I hope he was the size of Shaq or something. These kids know they be eating. Yayo is so wack its better the he stays in jail rather than a studio. Looks like he will be doing that stupid ass dance to his ass instead of his grill.
No we need to save our kids from Beyonce, did you see that video of that little boy performing ‘Irreplacable’. It was a disgrace before the Lord!
I agree,that was some mind picking shit.
I agree 18
When is someone gonna tell al sharpton to move on from fried ass press hair style he’s been rockin since the civil rights movement, u will never be president with that Do.
Tony Yayo is so wack!!!! And g-unit is wack as hell, how do people listen to that shit.
WTF?!! I’m SORRY, but there are MORE things to worry about then 50 cent and his GANG OF GORILLAS! I mean have we found OSAMA BINLADEN yet? I swear AMERICA’s priorities are so PHUCKED UP!
Besides, if he didn’t want to be attacked, when the little kid saw TONY YA-YO coming all he had to do was throw him some BANANA CHIPS!
LOL Janee girl stop!
Shit 50 suppose to come out with another album soon he better pray it go bananas.Most of 50 Cent listeners are white, who listen to Eminem who talks about killing his wife, so they gonna buy into his mess because they think that shit is fly which it ain’t.
ROFL @ banana chips
So what happened to “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” nothing has even been proven yet.
I thought this is what whites do, convict blacks with out them having there fair day in court. But now Al Sharpton is doing exactly what he always speaks out against.
I agree, we need to be looking for Osama Bin Laden’s ass before we worry about some spoiled rich kid. But umm, I would pick g-unit over a ja rule record anyday.
umm why would you boycott the Seinfield DVD don’t blame everyone involved for that one person. I guess people should be banning Grey’s Anatomy too.
I don’t know I understand what they are doing , but they should put more of the blame on Tony Yayo.
I am so tired of Al Sharpton
To me its really not all that serious
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# 18
Shaquanda Cotton was NOT sentenced to 7 years in prison from the start. She was offered probation, just like the white girl was. Shaquanda’s mother refused the probation offer.
The mother knew when she turned down the offer that her daughter was going to get time and she obviously didn’t care.
I don’t agree with the 7 year sentence, but the mother made a choice to decline the probation offer and basically told the judge to fuck off…what did she expect?
I mean damn!!! do they really have to protest about it?
Never been a fan of G-Unit b/c it stems from a real crew of “play-thugs” from my neighborhood. Karma’s a mutha’ it ALWAYS comes back around but I bet they didn’t realize how quick…They got Sharpton on their side which can mean GOODNIGHT Ggggg-G-Unot~ LMAO
It starts with someone slapping a kid and then next thing their hurting each others family members over stupid ass rap beef. Stop the madness!!
I was thinkin the same thing@15 lol
I kinda agree it’s not that serious to be boycottin and whatnot, but at the same time at least they are tryin to show that that bhavior will not be tolerated, but it would be better if they did something everytime a rapper did something wrong instead of just random shit
YAYO BACK TO THE GHETTO YOU GO. HAHAHA. THE WHOLE
G-UNIT CREW NEED A HUG FOR REAL.
haha thats what he get, he’s dead to rap and should have never been in the game
LMAO at that screen name u mean Ashanti is SHIT!
After all the protests & Boycotts, can anyone be prepared for this: ” What If…50 Cent Dismantled G-Unit For Good ? ”
Imagine, if 50 actually codemned Yayo for what he did, what would happen to G-Unit 2 or 3 yrs from now:
1. 50 quits rappin & gets a job with the F.B.I.
2. Lloyd Banks signs to Dipset
3. Young Buck stays on Interscope (Becomes extremely sucessful and does an album with Ludacris on the side)
4. Mobb Deep Signs to KOCH (The Return of the old Mobb)
5. M.O.P. signs to Def Jam
6. Even though i heard she left or got dropped, Olivia marries William Shatner and writes a book about her days with G-Unit exposing them (i.e. The real reason that Game got the boot by 50- Because he hated ghostwriting 50′s hooks & 50 crying like a baby because Raven Symone asked him if he was taking steroids)
And Finally……… 7. Yayo becomes a congressman and denounces his days as an “Rap Artist who sold more albums than Jay-Z”
Ok, whatever…there is bigger shyt they coul be worried about…
COSIGN WITH 18…… GUNIT MY GOD THEY ARE ALWAYS INTO SOMETHING THEY ALL NEED TO SIT THERE ASSES DOWN DAMN!!
Well, it’s about time someone shut these G-Unit fools down.
LOL@J.Lewis!!
Tony Yayo is an idiot…he is just a dumb fyck who obviously loves to stay in jail. The sad thing is Yayo and more than half of G-Unit are fathers themselves…I say throw Yayo under the fyckin jail for being so damn stupid, if someone hit his babygirl or son he would be ready to body a mutherfycka.
G-Unit is most definitely NOT a respectable rap label or brand anymore…all of 50′s hustlin down the drain, I hope he invested that money b.cuz I don’t see anyone rushing to buy G-Unit albums, books, clothes, or the other crap they sell.
I refuse to give G-Unit anymore of my money…I know those people that 50 has done wrong are laughing their asses off, what goes around most definitely comes back around.
Some of you are saying the world has better things to worry about, well guess what, they aren’t worried about it. This a BLACK COMMUNITY ISSUE! If some bastard on the street smacked up a child, family or not, WOULD YOU JUST LET IT SLIDE? Now had it not been Tony Yayo and some regular guy, if you’d of ran to the child’s defense, there’s no telling what would happen. Someone could’ve gotten beat down, arrested, shot dead, etc. You never know in some of our communities. The reason they are protesting is because he is a public figure, who should be ashamed of his disgusting self. He wouldn’t of done that shit in no WHITE neighborhood! They would’ve strung his ass right up! You a grown ass man doing that to a child! I NEVER was a big fan of G Unit and I don’t listen to rap period! All of the negativity and violent lyrics they spew into their own communities that THEY DON’T RESIDE IN, please, I look forward to the demise of their careers.
IF SOMEONE SLAPPED ANYBODY’S CHILD ON THIS BOARD THEY WOULD WANT SOMETHING DONE OR WOULD PROBABLY TAKE THE MATTER IN THEIR OWN HANDS. SO STOP BEING STUPID BY SAYING IT’S NOT THAT SERIOUS, BECAUSE I KNOW IF IT WAS MY SON AND MINE IS 19 YEARS OLD I WOULD PROBABLY BE LOCKED UP BY NOW.
LOL…and why yall gotta be mentioning the BLOOD OF THE LAMB in here. Don’t she get enough air time in her own posts? Please, let’s have a stan free session in here before there is a massive slaughter up in here!
Nig gers are so stupid – I am sick of this from black people. It is just embarrassing
Real talk….If dude would have touch my child there would be no cops involved…he would have got clapped
I like g-unit…well more like in love with Young Buck. Tony Yayo is a whack artist and a complete idiot for hitting on a child. I do not think the whole squad should be punished for this clowns actions.
The whole group is paying the price…reminds of of when black people do something STUPID like Bar-B -Q their girlfriends non black people look at us all like we looking for someone to cook up too.
#18 you sound really STUPID, no he wasnt murdered but you know what? how about we SLAP YOUR KID, that cowardly act could have caused an all out war and deaths behind that, i’m glad they are trying to stop the stupidy instead of Jimmy Henchmen going to the streets and somebody else winds up DEAD….
you are insensitive to the victim, 4 grown ass men surrond you, scaring you with weapons and one of them slaps you?!!!! if that was my kid it would of probably been another outcome, i’m glad the mother took the high road, these idiots need to be stopped, he has kids, he wouldnt want anybody hurting his… KARMA IS THE TRUTH, i hope for his kids sake it comes back on him and not his kids….
The only good member of G-Unit is Young Buck and he act like he don’t even belong in the group so imma still like him but Lloyd Banks, 50, and that otha dude can go away.
I hope nobody in here where them G-Unit clothes…they look so damn tacky.
I didn’t know Bryce’s sexy ass was with Czar Ent. Anyway, I’m glad they’re speaking out against this situation. It needed to be addressed.
I swear…Al Shaprton will come to the opening of a CAN OF TUNA!!!!!!!
I am sorry but this is such a waste of time. I live in Boston where kids, and others are being, shot, and murdered like it the wild west and where is the presence of the “national black leaders” why aren’t they marching here, or protesting the silence and fear that is surrounding the community? Perhaps because it is not a good enough photo op!
I agree with the people on here that Tony should be punished, not everyone. When 50 cent argues and has beef with other artist…Lloyd Banks and Young Buck RARELY say anything. They sit back and let 50 do what he do. He is a grown man with his OWN mind just as Tony. He needs his ass whooped PERIOD. I would support jail time if he is indeed found guilty because that was ignorant…the boy is a child.
6. J. Lewis said:
G-G-G-G-G-Get yo ass in the car!
LMAOOO PURE COMEDY
WELL I AGREE THIS FOOLISHNESS NEEDS TO STOP AND IF MY MIND SERVES ME CORRECTLY HIP HOP WAS DOING OK B4 50 & G-UNIT CAME ON THE SCENE…
@57…I agree with you all the way. But IMO, gangsta rap is bigger than what we think it is. In the past I have seen fights break out among black guys at parties when certain rap songs come on. I know everyone isn’t influenced by negativity, but in the ‘hood , many blacks, especially males, are. Everybody wants to be tougher than the next one. Back in the day, and I’m in no way agreeing with this, you had the one tough guy on the block (drug dealer) and his crew. Even though what they were doing in their community was ice cold, they still had some kind code of the streets and respect they lived by. Now today, EVERYBODY can be a bad guy and anyone can get a gun. What we have now is a bunch of pussy’s getting guns and acting bad. A couple of months ago, I was hanging with my cousin and he listens to a lot of rap. I guess now that I am older and really analyze things, I COULDN’T BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT I WAS HEARING! “Murder, Murder,..I’ll shoot you” bullshit! These kids hold on to this crap! Please, you don’t see white artist talking about murdering their own, and even if they do, it won’t be a majority. I’ve made it my business not to support any negative portrayal of black people period for 2007 and on.
On the news the other day, Philadelphia’s having a murder rate of 1 person a day to gun violence. As soon as I heard the news I knew it was the black neighborhoods they were talking about.
Sorry to rant you guys, but I can’t stand these modern day sambos. there is no way as a black woman/man you should use your platform as a celeb to show how ignorant you are.